Kidnapping

A woman convicted of fatally strangling a pregnant woman, cutting her body open and kidnapping her baby is scheduled to be the first female inmate put to death by the U.S. government in more than six decades.

Members of anti-government paramilitary groups discussed kidnapping Virginia’s governor during a June meeting in Ohio, an FBI agent testified Tuesday during a court hearing for a group of men accused of plotting to abduct Michigan’s governor.

On Thursday, agents foiled a plot to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. NBC 5’s Patrick Fazio reports

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer thanked law enforcement on Thursday for their work in foiling a plot to kidnap her from her vacation home. The governor also accused President Donald Trump of encouraging extremism when he refused to condemn white supremacists during last week’s debate.

The FBI arrested at least six men on Thursday for plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer from her vacation home.

Federal authorities say nearly 40 missing or endangered children have been rescued by federal and state agents in Georgia.

An Atlanta-area mother who attempted to shoot and fight off kidnappers was reunited with her child Saturday after the baby was found unharmed, authorities said.

Deputies arrested a man this weekend who allegedly told them he drove from South Carolina to a home in Central Florida with a plan to kidnap a World Wrestling Entertainment star. NBC affiliate WFLA-TV reports that 24-year-old Phillip Thomas II had been stalking Sonya Deville for several years on social media and drove to her home north of Tampa this…

A couple was arrested last week and accused of collecting payments in a kidnap for ransom scheme that left a San Diego man and a Norwalk man dead in Tijuana, Mexico.

Around 12:04 p.m. on Monday, a 13-year-old girl was approached by an unknown Hispanic man likely in his 40s or 50s on the 3000 block of North Central Avenue on Chicago’s Northwest Side, police said. The man drove an old model of a silver Honda Odyssey mini-van and told the young woman to “get in” his vehicle, according to police….

A Washington state woman and her 16-year-old daughter were arrested Friday afternoon after the woman allegedly posed as a baby photographer and drugged a mother in an attempt to steal her newborn, NBC News reports.

An 11-year-old girl abducted in Springfield was found safe and her alleged kidnapper arrested Wednesday evening after an Amber Alert was issued amid an hourslong search, Massachusetts State Police said.

San Jose police, with the help of a security guard, arrested a 70-year-old man this week on suspicion of kidnapping and molesting a 13-year-old girl, according to the police department.

A kidnapping victim was found safe and a suspect has been arrested after Las Vegas police released security camera footage of a woman being taken by the suspect.

A 16-year-old girl was grabbed off a Bronx street right in front of her mother Monday night — and police are investigating the case as a possible kidnapping, authorities say. An Amber Alert was issued at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

Police are questioning the validity of a report that two men were kidnapped Thursday in Portage Park by a group of people pretending to be police officers and driven nearly 20 miles across town. “In their preliminary investigation to corroborate information, Detectives have serious concerns about legitimacy of what was reported to police,” Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Friday…

Two men were kidnapped by a group of people pretending to be police officers Thursday and driven from Chicago’s Northwest Side to the South Side. Sandra Torres reports.

Chicago police are searching for the suspect who violently kidnapped a 20-year-old woman on the city’s South Side and locked her in a basement for six days, police confirmed.

A Chicago mother has launched a plea justice after her daughter was violently kidnapped in the city’s Englewood neighborhood, sexually assaulted and held in a basement for six days, police said.

The public had its first look Monday at the man suspected of kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and killing her parents. Jake Patterson, 21, went before a judge for a bond hearing in Barron County, Wisconsin, Monday afternoon. His bond was set for $5 million. NBC 5 Chicago’s Kate Chappell reports.